[wpkg-users] Problem with road warriors

Tomasz Chmielewski mangoo at wpkg.org
Thu Oct 30 10:54:55 CET 2008


Johannes.Brix at evidian.com schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> yesterday, one of our road warriors connectect from outside of our 
> enterprise network
> and started the update.
> 
> This was not such a good idea, because the network slowed down to 
> unusability
> for all other applications work over the network.
> 
> So, my question is, how can I avoid that PC connected from extern start an 
> update session.
> 
> The differentiation is possible by the IP address - from extern it is a 
> different range than 
> being internal connected.
> 
> Any idea how to solve this?

Use WPKG Client.

Write a script which will determine if the client is connected to the 
local network or if it's outside. The script should exit with code 0 if 
the network is local, and non-zero if the machine is outside.

Put the script as the "offline mode" (should be stored locally).


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org



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